Pith Number

pith:6WNOZJRY

pith:2016:6WNOZJRYBXI3H4KMRPC2JGINUO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Role of Simplicity in Creative Behaviour: The Case of the Poietic Generator

Antoine Saillenfest, Jean-Louis Dessalles, Olivier Auber

arxiv:1612.08657 v1 · 2016-12-22 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6WNOZJRYBXI3H4KMRPC2JGINUO}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:53:52.442814Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f59aeca6380dd1b3f14c8bc5a4990da3a5c0db8eb7cb84ecf5efc575fc6ae653

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.08657 · arxiv_version: 1612.08657v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.08657 · pith_short_12: 6WNOZJRYBXI3 · pith_short_16: 6WNOZJRYBXI3H4KM · pith_short_8: 6WNOZJRY

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6WNOZJRYBXI3H4KMRPC2JGINUO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: f59aeca6380dd1b3f14c8bc5a4990da3a5c0db8eb7cb84ecf5efc575fc6ae653

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "baecbbaf8455fa5d9ea5bc03201177a2cfb9ae1cb5dff22679d814b0dcfdab39",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-22T12:56:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1548b19043636974fe403406fab3dce6543702506b69359722b90b93326de393"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.08657",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}